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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom 6 Nov 2020

      Starting now on youtube, a discussion of the Great Barrington Declaration, John Snow Memorandum, and the notion of natural herd immunity as the COVID endgame between @mlipsitch and Jay Bhattacharya:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsUTAWBJ9M&feature=youtu.be …

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    2. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom 6 Nov 2020

      I really don't want to live-tweet this, but I want to point out that, contra Bhattacharya, this is not merely a matter of what to do until the vaccine arrives. Even after it is available, we will need to control COVID. We can't expect vaccines to magically take us back to 2019.

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    3. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom 6 Nov 2020

      More generally, the whole thing is bizarre because Bhattacharya is arguing against a lockdown strawman that no one is advocating let alone implementing—while ignoring the economic and social effects that a ranging pandemic has even in the absence of public health restrictions.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @CT_Bergstrom

      Not entirely true - he defines any intervention as locking down. His thesis is that we should have life entirely as normal except for a few vulnerable people, which I think is sadly just completely contradicted by all evidence

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        2. J.‏ @Cornvelious_Dan 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @jatweedie @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom

          The reality that he's correct and you would know that if you bothered to get any news from, say, Italy. Or any other country that has actually taken this pandemic seriously.

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        1. SR‏ @sorenrags 6 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom

          We should have life as normal. The problem is that life as normal is not on offer. We can choose life with a controlled pandemic, or life with an uncontrolled pandemic.

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        1. Girish‏ @BernieB53293225 6 Nov 2020
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          Elimination seems to be only viable exit, as NZ/Aus/SK/TWN/others have shown. And elimination isn't possible without (temp) lockdown +internal & external travel quarantines +strong TTI (or mass testing if u can manage it). If "nobody is calling for lockdowns", they should be.

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        2. fanatla (Saint's Fan account/cuenta de fan)‏ @atla_fan 7 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom

          There will be no "normal" at all until pandemic is contained and mitigated... in Medicine sick people is asked to make some sacrifices, along with treatement, in order to overcome the worst part and to mantain some changes to prevent more damages from a disease. Same here.

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        3. fanatla (Saint's Fan account/cuenta de fan)‏ @atla_fan 7 Nov 2020
          Replying to @atla_fan @GidMK @CT_Bergstrom

          Also, Mr. Bhattayarcha walks a thin line: "normal" people who should be "allowed to live a normal life" while "sensible people should be protected by isolation"? A "public" health policy ceases to be "public" when it sacrifices only vulnerable people for purely economic purposes.

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